Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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Repository | |
Written in | Go |
Operating system | Linux, Windows, macOS |
Type | OS-level virtualization |
License | Apache-2.0 license |
Website | podman.io |
In computing, Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant [1] container management tool from Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system, [2] with support for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine. [3] Based on the libpod library, it offers APIs for the lifecycle management of containers, pods, images, and volumes. The API is identical to the Docker API. [4] Podman Desktop provides an alternative to Docker Desktop. [5]